George Bowen (missionary)

George Bowen
Born(1816-04-30)April 30, 1816
Middlebury, Vermont
DiedFebruary 5, 1888(1888-02-05) (aged 71)
Bombay, India
NationalityAmerican

George H. Bowen (30 April, 1816 – 5 February, 1888) was an American missionary, newspaper man, linguist, and translator in India. He was known as "The White Saint of India" for his resemblance in manner and dress to the Hindu holy men.[1][2][3]

Like many New Englanders of his generation Bowen was a skeptic, especially after reading the works of Edward Gibbon;[1] however at the age of 28, in 1844, he grew into an acceptance of the Christian God upon reading William Paley's Natural Theology.[1] Bowen subsequently enrolled in the Union Theological Seminary in New York and graduated from there in 1847.

Bowen went to India the next year as a missionary under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He became assistant editor in 1851 and edited and published the Bombay Guardian from 1854 until his death in 1888. He was among the one of Christian missionaries who participated in famous religious polemics with Vishnubuva Brahmachari - an ascetic defender of the Hindu dharma. These meetings were held at Mumbai sea shore from 15th January 1857 to 28th May 1857 on every Thursday evening. Bowen had published a book viz. Discussions by the Sea Side giving brief report of these meetings. [1] He was also the director of the Bombay Tract and Book Society.[4] In the beginning of 1871, Bowen worked with American Methodist William Taylor administering to the needs of the offspring of Indian and European unions. In 1873 he joined the Methodist church.[5] Bowen Memorial Methodist Church of Mumbai was established in his memory in 1889.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Barnhart, Clarence L., ed. (1954). "Bowen, George". New Century Cyclopedia of Names, Volume One, A – Emin Pasha. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. p. 606.
  2. ^ "Bowen, George". Visual Bible Alive. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14.
  3. ^ Mudge, James (1906). "Fifty Years in Southern Asia". Methodist Review. 88: 116–129, page 128. OCLC 1757206.
  4. ^ Lacy, Creighton (1999). "Bowen, George". In Anderson, Gerald H. (ed.). Biographical dictionary of Christian missions (reprint of 1997 ed.). Grand Rapids, Michigan: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 82–83. ISBN 978-0-8028-4680-8.
  5. ^ Shavit, David (1990). "Bowen, George". The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. New York: Greenwood. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-313-26788-8.
  6. ^ "Methodist Church in India". Retrieved June 17, 2018.

Further reading

  • Speer, Robert E. (1938). George Bowen of Bombay, missionary, scholar, mystic, saint. New York: Missionary review of the world. OCLC 423850.
  • A selection of obituaries for George Bowen, "The Late Rev. George Bowen". The Voice of India. 6 (3): 183–184. 1888.
  • The George H. Bowen Manuscript Collection, Special Collections, Princeton Theological Seminary Library


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